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The Nation: Why we need to invest in sustainable food systems
24.06.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Imagine going to your local market and finding empty shelves or skyrocketing prices for basic…
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CGIAR’s new flagship report will help decision-makers transform food, land, and water systems
17.06.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As the world faces unprecedented environmental and social challenges, CGIAR—the global partnership…
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CGIAR and CIFOR-ICRAF agree to strengthened collaboration
12.06.24To address the pressing challenges facing global food systems, CGIAR and The Center for Internationa…
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CGIAR and Brazil forge new partnership to strengthen food system resilience
12.06.24In a move to enhance agricultural resilience, the Brazilian Agriculture Research Corporation (Embrap…
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Famine in Gaza
18.03.24-
Food security
By Rob Vos, Ismahane Elouafi, and Johan Swinnen Is it too late to save Gaza’s…
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CGIAR's Rachael McDonnell highlights systems approach in UK inquiry on achieving zero hunger
14.03.24Rachael McDonnell, IWMI Deputy Director General and CGIAR Senior Program Director for Water Systems,…
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Preserving native maize and culture in Mexico
22.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
These indigenous farmers are custodians of maize biodiversity, growing seeds passed down over genera…
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International Biodiversity Day: Diversifying agroecosystems to suppress crop pests
22.05.18-
Environmental health
BY WEI ZHANG Insect pests are a major cause of crop yield losses around the…
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The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook: delivering biodiversity knowledge in the information age
22.05.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook is a new framework to deliver biodiversity knowledge. Fi…
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Harmonizing crop trait data: Crop Ontology
22.05.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
Crop Ontology provides scientists and breeders with a common language that describes crop phenotypes…
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Disrupting agricultural and tree biodiversity science – a review of Bioversity International’s 2017
22.05.18-
Biodiversity
On the International Day of Biological Diversity, which in 2018 marks 25 years of action…
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How planting trees can protect cocoa plants against climate change
18.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Worldwide, areas suitable for cocoa production are predicted to shrink by up to 20-30% over…
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Uganda will use trees on farms to meet national biodiversity targets
16.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Trees on farms in Uganda are the focus of a new strategy aimed at increasing…
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Towards greater genetic gains in rice based agri-food systems in South Asia and Africa
16.05.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
On a mission to make Asia and sub-Saharan Africa more food secure, IRRI’s Stress-Tolerant Rice…
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Groundnut researchers in Asia move towards modernization of breeding program
16.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The first meeting of the Groundnut Network Group-Asia (GNG-A) on 30-31 March 2018 at ICRISAT-India…
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GLF summit: Leveraging investment portfolios to manage sustainable landscapes
15.05.18-
Environmental health
More than 900,000 people living off the electrical grid now have improved access to renewable…
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Ivorian seed producers trained in quality rice seed production at AfricaRice M’bé Research Station
15.05.18-
Biodiversity
About 30 Ivorian seed producers participated in a training workshop organized by the Food and…
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From the soil to the law, climate change efforts in Indonesia
15.05.18-
Environmental health
Despite growing pressures of development and urbanization, community members from Sendangsari villag…
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Firm to pitch $150 million Treenewable Climate Fund in GLF Dragons’ Den
10.05.18-
Environmental health
An investment company managing almost $5 billion in land assets will make a $150 million…
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Disentangling natural resource management impacts – one evaluation at a time
10.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Last week was a tough one for our small group of IFPRI researchers in Accra.…
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Workshop on data management in agriculture
10.05.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
PhenoHarmonIS workshop 2018 on harmonization of germplasm, phenotypic and agronomic data for plants…
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The road to climate resilience
10.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Enabling rural communities to draw up action plans aimed at enhancing resilience to climate-related …
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Informing Change in the Indus Basin (ICIB)
10.05.18-
Environmental health
Opportunities for journalists to report on the most pressing environmental and development problems …
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Strategy for agroforestry development in Viet Nam
09.05.18-
Environmental health
Viet Nam is preparing for a long-term strategy to speed adoption of agroforestry throughout the…
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